On 19 August 2017 at 09:50, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: > Adam Spiers <orgm...@adamspiers.org> writes: >> I was also expecting to be able to use #+NAME: foo in front of a >> headline > > You cannot use a NAME keyword to a headline (or an inlinetask). > CUSTOM_ID is morally equivalent, though. > >> or even other elements like paragraphs, but this doesn't >> work. Is this a bug, or am I misreading the manual? > > Currently, "ox-html" doesn't create an anchor for named paragraphs, > unless the paragraph consists of an image only. > > However, you can put targets anywhere in a paragraph using <<target>> > syntax. > >> Is there any way of creating an anchor for an arbitrary element, >> short of some ugly "+HTML" hack? > > Note that internal references are... internal. You can use them across > documents only when using Org publishing mechanism. IOW, <<target>> > doesn't create <a id="target"></a> anchor, but something like <a > id="org1234567"></a>.
Thanks Nicolas, that's super helpful!
